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Not just their safety is at risk, but also their families’. Many government workers are or have been targeted by terrorists. Terrorist attacks on domestic military facilities have grown in recent years due to the war on terrorism (Bewley). Workers are now the "targets of choice" for violent extremists in the U.S. (Bewley). One soldier — Pvt. William Andrew "Andy" Long — was killed at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., on June 2009 (Bewley). At Fort Hood, Texas, on November 2009, 13 more were killed during a shooting due to a terrorist attack (Bewley). It has been rumored that government workers have been targeted through phone calls. From retirement scams to death threats, Terrorists have attempted to take government employees’ money and lives (source is

April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”

“The gunpowder was still lingering in the air as San Bernardino Police Lt. Mike Madden and three other officers approached a conference center where a mass shooting had been reported. Bodies had fallen outside the meeting room in San Bernardino, California,” what these officers experienced on that Thursday evening

Colonel J.D. Magnus was the commander of Camp Edwards in Massachusetts when the event hit that Saturday night which seemed like an eternity ago. Camp Edwards is or was an Army National Guard training area, the largest in the northeast. Like many National Guard and Reserve components throughout the nation it was the time of year that they held two week drills constantly on post by various units. On the night of the event the camp was at its maximum capacity as far as units on two week drill. Some of the units had been in the field for two weeks already and were returning to garrison to clean and turn in vehicles, tents, weapons and other gear. There were also new units arriving to start their two week drill.

On July 17, 1944, there was an explosion at Port Chicago naval base. The first explosion was followed by a second massive explosion. More than a mile away, Navy personnel were thrown from their beds, windows were blown out and buildings collapsed. As men rushed down to the docks they found that it was completely blown away, along with the ships and all the personnel working there. There were no survivors to explain what caused this devastating accident. But the men assigned to move explosive ammunition from train cars to ships to be sent to troops overseas had a pretty good idea. They told a story of unfair working conditions, not enough training and dangerous competitions to see which teams could load their ships faster. So when they were asked to return to work on another dock to load explosives, they refused. They would not work with explosives unless the conditions improved. They were yelled at, they were imprisoned, they were threatened with the death sentence and some of them agreed to go back to work. In the end, 50 African-American sailors were charged with mutiny and court-martialed.

Little background on the shooters. John Allen Williams was born on December 31, 1960 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 17 years old he joined the Louisiana nation guard. In 1985 he volunteered for active duty in 1985. During his time in he achieved the highest possible marksmanship medal you can receive as an Expert Rifleman’s Badge. A year before the shootings he converted to Islam and change his last name to Muhammad in 2001. Muhammad was married two times. With his second wife he had three children and a rough custody battle to place. He lost the battle and moved to Antigua were he started a business selling false identity papers to locals who sought entry into the U.S. Where he had met Malvo and his mother trying to enter the U.S.

On August 26, 2008, 25-year-old Mohammed Taheri-azar was sentenced to 26-33 years in prison for an act of terrorism on UNC’s campus. He rented a Jeep and drove it through the most popular meeting place on campus, the “pit” (Carlson, 2008). Taheri-azar seriously injured nine people, but intended to kill many more. Some victims spoke out about their experiences. One victim, Larry Allsep, stated “When the jeep got close, I smelled the fumes and the gas.” He also said that he went up onto the hood and was thrown off. Allsep suffered many injuries from the attack, including a broken wrist and tail

The United States had its largest hostage rescue operation in its entire history, during the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. Four Vietnamese men, aged between 17 and 21, with legally acquired firearms purchased by the leader of the group, entered into a Good Guys! Electronics store with the intention to hold hostages until the four gunmen would receive (as ransom) “$4 million, four bullet-proof vests, a helicopter, and a 1,000-year-old ginger plant” (Gross, p. 10). “The gunmen had told negotiators and hostages that they were dissatisfied with their lives in the United States, frustrated by the difficulty of finding jobs and eager to be "movie stars" during the televised hostage crisis” (Gross, p. 8). These men wanted notoriety, and they wanted to return to their country of origin, Vietnam, using the helicopter they demanded in the ransom. Despite threatening the hostages, shooting several of them with the intent to injure them, and making wild ransom requests, the Vietnamese men made little headway. After they realized their ransom offers were not going to be met, they pushed the negotiators to give bulletproof vests in exchange for several women and children. After successfully delivering one vest, “…(SED Sniper Jeff Boyes) had received permission to fire on any subject he could obtain a clear line of sight on” (Sumner, p. 11). An opportunity arose,

On March 9, 1977, three buildings in Washington, D.C. were taken hold of by 12 muslim gunmen. They took 149 hostages and killed a radio journalist. After a 39 hour standoff, the gunmen surrendered and all remaining hostages were released from the district building. one of the people killed was Maurice williams, a radio reporter from WHUR-FM, who stepped off a fifth-floor elevator into the crises. The gunmen also shot D.C. Protective Service Division police officer Mack Cantrell, who died a few days later in the hospital of a heart attack.

On June 1, 2009, a Memphis, Tennessee resident named Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad drove to Little Rock, Arkansas, in a black Ford Explorer Sports Trac armed with a .22 rifle. Once in Little Rock, Arkansas, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad traveled to an Army recruiting center. After arriving at the Army recruiting center, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad noticed two soldiers dressed in fatigues outside the recruiting center, one of which was identified as

On October 22, 2014 Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed a soldier. I was there and I will tell you the whole story. It all started on October 22, 2014 I was going on a walk with my dog at 6:00 am to Parliament Hill. It was a chilly morning it was about 9 degrees celsius but I like the cold weather so I went for a walk.

On June 12, 2016, American born citizen Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and opened fire with 2 weapons killing forty-nine people and injuring fifty- three others. At around 2:00 am Omar placed a call to 911 and said pledged his loyalty to al-Baghdadi and to ISIS.Then shortly after placing another call, Mateen said, “It’s me, it’s me, I’m the shooter.” Presently, Mateen’s motives are unknown. However, past mass shooters have been motivated by mental instability, terroristic activities, and extreme radicalization.

Leading up to his assassination, Anwar Sadat had been at war with Israel for years before finally trying to form a peace treaty with them. He gained their peace and right before his death he was in Cairo, Egypt watching a military parade. The parade had been a victory for the military because it had marked Egypt’s 1973 war with Israel. A group known as the ( Takfir Wal-Hajira “NBC News”) posed as military officers during the parade and open fired on everyone present. The rest of the military did not take immediate action because they were not aware that some of the guns around them had ammo in them.

Climax of issue: “Shootout Sequence Remains in Doubt.” Dallas Morning News, 7 Sept. 1972, phw01.newsbank.com.: Unlike the other two news outlets, this article portrays the Munich police to be heroic and valiant during the attempted rescue of the hostages. The article focuses on what appears to be a well thought-out and properly equipped rescue mission, while in all actuality, the police were unprepared and inadequately trained. Highlighting the police efforts while omitting their lack of preparedness and training, the newspaper states that “[t]he television pictures also showed exploding flares apparently sent up as police with dogs set out to chase three fleeing terrorists who were later captured.” This omission makes readers more inclined to

It was a bright november day. The trees were blowing in the wind sending leaves scattering. All of a sudden Bang! It came from the front door. I rushed over to see a hole in my door. As I examined it there was another loud bang. As my window shattered, I realized what was happening. As a retired Navy Seal my training kicked in. I